A Taste of Spring: Real Simple’s Vibrant Pea Salad There are certain dishes that, with just one bite, transport you back in time. For me, this Real Simple pea salad is one of those culinary anchors. I vividly recall a breezy spring afternoon many years ago, sitting in my friend Shelly’s sun-drenched kitchen. She was … Read more
Yellow Pea and Bacon Soup: A Hug in a Bowl There are some dishes that, when you first taste them, feel like they’ve always been a part of your life. Yellow Pea and Bacon Soup is one of those for me. I remember a blustery autumn afternoon, the kind where the wind rattles the windows … Read more
Fresh English Pea Salad with Mint and Pecorino The scent of fresh peas, still faintly sweet from their pods, always transports me back to my grandmother’s kitchen on a bright spring afternoon. She had a knack for making the simplest ingredients sing, and this English pea salad was a prime example. It was a regular … Read more
The Emerald Embrace: A Celebration of Fresh Green Pea Soup There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when you cultivate your own ingredients. For me, the joy of growing organic peas in my kitchen garden is inextricably linked to the vibrant, verdant soups that emerge from that labor. This Fresh Green Pea Soup is … Read more
The Unexpected Delight: 3 P’s Salad (Peas, Pickle, Peanut) I’ll admit, when my friend, Sarah, who hails from the heart of Oklahoma, first described this salad to me, my eyebrows did a little dance of skepticism. “Peas, pickles, and peanuts? Together?” I remember thinking, conjuring images of disparate flavors clashing rather than harmonizing. Yet, Sarah, … Read more
Fresh Pea Soup with Mint: A Verdant Embrace of Spring There are few things that evoke the vibrant awakening of spring quite like the burst of sweetness from fresh peas. I remember, as a young apprentice in a bustling London kitchen, the sheer joy of shucking handfuls of emerald jewels from their pods, the faint, … Read more